Something About The Law

In my previous post, I had written about the spillover effects of the Arab Spring – how the Israel-Palestine conflict is being moulded by popular uprisings in the region; and how Turkey is looking to position itself as a key post-revolutionary player. First, the Arab-Israeli conflict. Here is a synthesized takeaway from a roundtable discussion [...]

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At its core, the Arab Spring has ushered in participatory politics and democratic aspirations hitherto repressed in the region. The cup of mass movements is now reaching its brim and threatens to overflow – naturally, the focal point of discussions has shifted from the centre to the edges. For some in the Middle East, these [...]

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Continuing with Gaza, I’d invite the readers to read two posts by Dapo Akande and Marko Milanovic on the issue on EJIL Talk. Both the authors discuss the crisis from a strictly legal point of view explaining as to why it is an internationally wrongful act on the part of Israel and its claim of [...]

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Gaza is still burning… I just saw a CNN debate on the gaza crisis between Yishai Fleisher and David Levy (Sorry readers, I couldn’t get the link online). Yishai argued that Israel had a right to defend itself and what people around the world are calling ethnic cleansing is more an assertion of a state [...]

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They came and destroyed my home, I ran away. They came and killed my young brothers and sisters, I but mourned . They surrounded us and stopped food and electricity supply to us, life went along. Ten thousand bombs rained and I pretended that life went along. Now when I stand up to fight for [...]

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